Judge Eumi Lee in San Jose has just been reassigned several cases: (1) J.L. v. Alphabet, (2) the related case Zhang v. Google, and (3) the music publishers’ case Concord Music v. Anthropic.
The latter case will have a motion for preliminary injunction for Judge Lee to decide.
Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, who had the first two cases, presides over the In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation.
Judge Scott Corley, who presided over the Concord Music case, no longer has an AI copyright case.
From the press release on her confirmation:
Judge Lee was nominated for the judgeship on July 27, 2023, and had her nomination hearing on
Sept. 6, 2023. Her nomination was pending and thus was returned to the president when the First
Session of the 118th Congress adjourned on Jan. 3, 2024. She was renominated on Jan. 8, 2024,
and her nomination was reported to the Senate floor on January 18. She will fill a judgeship
vacant since May 17, 2023, when District Judge William H. Orrick, III, assumed senior status.
She will maintain chambers in San Jose.
Judge Lee has served as judge on the Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland and Hayward,
California, since 2018. Previously, she worked at the University of California, Hastings College
of the Law (now University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco), where she was
clinical professor of law, 2011-2018; co-director, Hastings Institute for Criminal Justice, 2010-
2012; ethics trainer, 2009-2010, 2012; associate clinical professor of law, 2008-2010; clinical
attorney and assistant clinical professor, 2005-2008; and a moot court, legal research and writing
instructor in 2001. She was in private practice for over a decade in San Francisco as a contract
attorney and of counsel at Gonzalez & Leigh (dissolved/defunct), 2010-2012 and 2006-2008; as
an associate at Keker & Van Nest LLP (now Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP), 2002-2005; and as an
associate at Thelen Reid & Priest LLP (dissolved/defunct), 2000-2001.